Posted on 11/13/2013 9:01:14 PM PST by moonshinner_09
'I just shot someone': The dramatic moment man who 'gunned down innocent black woman, 19, on his porch' called police to confess
The unnamed man who gunned down 19-year-old Renisha McBride after she knocked on his door looking for help, called police soon after saying he had, 'just shot someone on his porch.' In an emergency call made moments after the tragic incident, he said he thought he had shot someone and then hung up. The police dispatcher then re-established contact with him and he told her he didn't know who the victim was. Minutes after that an officer arrived at the scene of the killing and said: 'There's somebody down on the porch ... it appears it's going to be a black female.' The Detroit News got hold of the audio footage from the early hours of November 2, when tragic Ms McBride was gunned down in Dearborn Heights, Michigan.
Ms McBride – who is black - apparently knocked on the door in the predominantly white neighborhood, looking for help after crashing her car a few blocks away. The audio obtained through Broadcastify provides a glimpse into the events of that morning. At 4.46am the female dispatcher says: 'Just received a 911 call from a male (who) thinks he just shot someone on his porch. Then he hung up; we're trying to call back
About a minute later, the dispatcher radioed: 'Units responding: We have the male on the line. (He) states he doesn’t know this person. Trying to get further (information).' A responding officer told the dispatcher: 'There's somebody down on the porch ... it appears it's going to be a black female.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Any black is now suspect as a potential threat. Not fair, but the real world.”
Especially whites, every black that would set foot on my property in an urban setting is justified to “fear for ones life”
What are the odds that she didn’t have a cell phone? How did she get a mile away from the accident for hours in below freezing weather?
My friend who happens to be a lawyer told me exactly what to do if I even so much as drew my weapon, much less ever fired it.
STFU was his exact words, you have the right to remain silent so USE it, especially when you first call 911 to report it. He even goes so far as to recommend someone else call for you so you’re not on the recording at all if possible.
It doesn’t matter if the cops get all pissy because you hand them your ID and refuse to answer a single question, even that you were involved at all and it’s your gun laying there. He couldn’t begin to tell me how many people he represented talked themselves right into a corner because they were chatted up by the cops at the scene, even if they were innocent.
Crashed into a parked car, so it was extremely likely to be her own fault. Need to find out if she was driving impaired.
At 1.40am a police cruiser was dispatched to the scene, but Ms McBride was gone.
Another example of the old "when seconds count, the police are minutes away". If the cops would have showed up promptly, she might be alive. I would also assume that the homeowner that called mentioned that she was hurt. An ambulance should have been sent as well. Also, according to the article, 1:40 was when it was DISPATCHED. Why so long between the call and the dispatch?
She walked for a few blocks, before knocking on the shooter's door. She was not shot until around 4am and it is not known what she had been doing for the two-and-a-half hours before her death.
So, in the 2 1/2 hours she was walking around, she went a few blocks. The police SHOULD have been searching for her since you have an injured accident victim that is missing. Where are the cops during this time? If they actually did look for here, why didn't they find her?
I can only assume that she didn't WANT to be found by or talk to the cops, and wandering off was the first step to that end. The only other possibility was that she was disoriented from the accident. In either case, the cops should have been actively searching for her because she's either evading justice or in danger due to injury. That she only went a short distance in 2 1/2 hours before getting shot, means that either the police didn't actually look for her, or she was evading them. They had enough time to cover every street in the area multiple times. Since they should have assumed that she was missing due to injury, this would include searching on foot.
Based on what we know so far and only looking at the events from the accident up to her knocking on the that door, the police dropped the ball in not locating her, but it's likely that that was in part because she didn't want to be found.
I haven’t read it yet:
My guess is she was high as a kite on drugs and/or alcohol and didn’t want to be found with her car.
Additionally, I can well imagine someone drugged up or drunk feeling all ‘entitled’ and getting pissed when someone doesn’t open the door for them. Worse behavior has happened for far less provocation.
I happened across a conversation between a couple of guys that used to live in this neighborhood. Evidently, it has gone down hill very quickly and is now a craphole....
Their conclusion was that it is so crime ridden that they would have shot a “white” guy knocking on their doors at 2 am!
“This is statement he made to police:This man’s claiming – he believed the girl was breaking into the home. And he’s also saying the gun discharged accidentally,’ Now he cannot have it both ways”
Sure he can. Let’s say... she was beating on the door, he opens the door to see what is going on, and an enraged drunk attempts to walk in, he fears for his life, is backing up and the gun just goes off accidentally.
See how that works?
Exactly. The thing is, before people decide that the homeowner acted from bad intention, or even negligently, you have to try as best you can to figure out what information he had at the time, taking into consideration other factors like the hour, the behavior and actions of the other person, etc.
The totality of the circumstances as it were.
And then ask, “what could a reasonable person do in those circumstances?”
There are many things that could be exculpatory or inculpatory — based on the information available in the media (almost none) this could be anything from a justifiable homicide, a negligent homicide, or even (a remote possibility it seems at this point), murder.
The really ugly part of this is the politics, and the howls of the people looking to get a payday of some sort out of this. It’s so commonplace it’s almost invisible, but it’s sickening.
Her parents originally stated that she was shot in the back of the head. So I’m happy they are showing some restraint.
If it was freezing that night, it might explain why the autopsy says she was completely wet.
She had a cell phone but the battery was dead. It will be interesting to see who she called and spoke to ... especially if it was friends and family.
Everyone in this country should watch that 50 minute video.
I didn’t read it either. It doesn’t mean anything. Name calling has nothing to do with the facts. Let’s not fall into that trap.
I didn’t post it to enforce calling the guy a racist. i posted it because even his ex-GF is standing up for him. You totally missed it!
Ah, I misinterpreted the “racist” in the link. Shouldha been “non-racist”. :-)
Why not?
Decision today 11 AM:
Was it a “hate crime” too?
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